libtool: Dlopen issues
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1 10.5 Unresolved dlopen issues
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1 The following problems are not solved by using libtool's dlopen support:
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1 * Dlopen functions are generally only available on shared library
1 platforms. If you want your package to be portable to static
1 platforms, you have to use either libltdl (⇒Using libltdl)
1 or develop your own alternatives to dlopening dynamic code. Most
1 reasonable solutions involve writing wrapper functions for the
1 'dlopen' family, which do package-specific tricks when dlopening is
1 unsupported or not available on a given platform.
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1 * There are major differences in implementations of the 'dlopen'
1 family of functions. Some platforms do not even use the same
1 function names (notably HP-UX, with its 'shl_load' family).
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1 * The application developer must write a custom search function to
1 discover the correct module filename to supply to 'dlopen'.
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